NASI UDUK (UDUK RICE)

Nasi uduk is one of the many varieties of spice infused rices, very common in Indonesia. The basic is rice, coconut milk, lemongrass, salam leaves, and a little salt. On top of the rice I put bawang goreng (deep-fried shallots) and slivered fried eggs. And then, I wrapped the rice with banana leaves. This is made of rice boiled in coconut milk spiced with corriander, salt and daun salam (similar to bay leave) and then steamed. Usually nasi uduk is served with fried chicken, empal or bacem and garnished with sliced cucumber and daun kemangi (a kind of parsley with certain aromatic smell).

NASI GANDUL (GANDUL RICE)

Nasi means Rice, the taste of nasi gandul similar to semur, it's sweet but rich because of coconut milk. Nasi Gandul originally from Pati, Central Java, and its a "must" to put the banana leave on the base of this dish . Its looks like soup, with "choose it yourself" ingredients, such as beef, egg, inner part of cow (well, Indonesian eat this parts).It's taste sweet (i mean a lot of sugar) and of course spicy. 

WEDANG JAHE

Wedang is Javanese language to call these hot drink. It can be tea, coffee or ginger tea or any drink that is hot enough to sweep these cold out from our body in raining season in Java so is very healthy for our body. 

Actually ginger tea (Wedang Jahe) is not a kind of tea, nor it is made from tea leaves. It is made from ginger and it is a cheap spice in Indonesia eventhough it is called exotic by western people.

Wedang Jahe can be found anywhere from hawker stall to restaurant. These hawkers will push a removable stall and selling these from house blocks to another area all days. The sound of spoon hitting porcelain bowl will immediately signal these students living in boarding house or office workers to go out to buy these Wedang or fried food or even vegetables sold by hawkers.